BORROWED LIFE Solange Peters “died” -- and so did the scandal and suspicion that haunted her. A bizarre accident gave her the chance to take a new identity -- and, as Julie Taylor, she set out on a new life. But her job as companion to weal...
Margaret Ross knew she had to pay off the blackmailer, Samson, or else her beloved son would go to jail for forgery. The next night she rang the bell at Samson's sinister house on Margate Street. There was no answer. Slowly she entered the hou...
DANGER FROM THE DARK Wandering in the night, May had seen something she didn't understand--until a girl's murdered body was found in the same spot. Then she knew what she had seen--and she knew, too, that the murderer had seen her, and that her turn...
DEATH STRUCK ONE …and down came the companion -- or perhaps guard? -- of the unpredictable Imogen Garland…down to a sudden death in the street. Nobody could take Imogen seriously as a murderess -- but she could very definitely be a victim, an...
Some men are born to be murdered Lewis Bishop was one of them - the perfect victim, a man whom many had every reason to hate and fear. When he is suddenly shot dead one night he leaves behind him only unpleasant memories, a flood of relief, and a p...
They took her identity - they wanted her life - but they couldn't take her spirit. Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection ClubWhen Julia Ross, a jobless and penniless young woman, is sent to meet a prospective employer, she is obliviou...
Discover the captivating treasures buried in the British Library's archives. Largely inaccessible to the public until now, these enduring crime classics were written in the golden age of mysteries.At a soirée like this, anyone can be the life -- or ...
Richard Arnold, a juror in the case, was certain that beautiful Viola Ross could not have murdered her husband, Teddy. He set about his own investigations before Viola faced a second trial. Knowing Viola had quarrelled frequently with her husband ove...
'No author is more skilled at making a good story seem brilliant' Sunday Express 'Some men are born public characters, some achieve publicity and some have it thrust upon them. I belong to the last class on account of my association with the unfo...
Several individuals, occupying a house divided into flats, become connected more than just by living in the same place. Arthur receives an unexpected visitor, Miss Chisholm disappears, and Kay brings herself in to the view of danger. One of the re...
Con Gardiner had no family; his work and his one-room flat filled most of his solitary existence, until one evening a strange girl in the street asked him to lend her a pound. Con was attracted to Caro Graves, and puzzled too; he couldn't see ...